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This week, to make sure that voters knew he was in dead earnest, he released a book that put Candidate Stassen's views on most major political issues down in printer's ink. It was appropriately entitled Where I Stand (Doubleday; $2). Some of the areas where Stassen took his stand...
...ever since an overzealous missionary had locked his relatives in a church which had then accidentally burned down before anyone could unlock the doors. So one day in 1865, when Kereopa happened on the Rev. Carl Volkner in a lonely spot, he killed him, taking care to eat the dead man's eyes so the ghost would not stare at him. The New Zealand Government promptly offered a ?1,000 reward for the murderer, and several years later another Maori chief named Wari Te Whiu turned Kereopa...
...Bulliet led the sneering section with the remark that "these ' 'isms,' grown stale and sterile in the lands of their origins, are further enfeebled crossing the Atlantic." Whatever the critics might say, Director Daniel Catton Rich was convinced that he was showing not the dead hand of the past but the shining face of the future. Only ten years ago, documentary "American School" painting of barnyards, brick cityscapes and beautiful vacation views had been the style. Now, Institute scouts, back from a 24,000-mile trip around the U.S., had convinced Rich that abstractionism is "the prevailing...
...young president of Sarah Lawrence College (for bluestocking young ladies-usually stockingless) is Harold Taylor, 33. His youth has never stopped him from sounding off to his elders. A month ago, he leveled at the Great Books program for concentrating too much on dead letters. Last week, at New York's twelfth annual Educational Conference, he berated the whole U.S. educational system. Said he: "[It] has become one massive quiz program, with the prizes and the honors going to the most . . . repulsively well-informed persons. The man with his hand up first wins the scholarship, is asked to make...
House In the Desert (Palestine Films; United Palestine Appeal) is a 27-minute documentary story of a hard, admirable piece of pioneering: the washing of salt from a few hundred acres of the Dead Sea desert, and the reclamation of the soil. It is crudely made, but at its best moments its crudity and deep emotion seem more proper to each other than polish could...